Shock Training Scrapper Build Guide for PvE
Build
The playstyle is dependent on proper management of your Shock and stamina resources. With long cooldowns and powerful abilities, you can’t afford to miss your attacks.
This playstyle is the burst version of the
with the highest damage potential.You take a few yellow skills to build your shock meter, and the rest of your skills are big explosive attacks like and .
10
Charging Blow
7
Crushing Smite
7
Fierce Tiger Strike
12
Roundup Sweep
12
Death Rattle
12
Chain Destruction Fist
12
Potent Rising Fist
12
Supernova
Mysterious Art: Blast of Ruination
Skill priority
You want to max your 4 hard hitting skills first, minding the order above. It's important to have enough points in your stamina skills for the tripod, since their main purpose is to build stamina.
After that, maxing your counter and then charging blow will give you the greatest gains.
How to play
The number one thing about this build is to make sure you are always finding your way to the boss's rear for the back attack bonus, which is 10% additional crit chance and 5% damage (30% damage with ).
The second most important thing you need to do is manage your shock meter so you’re able to cast and connect with your hardest hitting abilities when the opportunity arises.
You deal a massive amount of burst damage with and . As such, you can't afford to miss them.
Skill Usage Priority
Since your cooldowns are long, you will have to space your abilities and read the boss's movements judging how big each burst window is.
When you get an opportunity to strike, you should look to use the hardest hitting skills when you can, using Stamina skills to refill your Shock meter in between casts.
It will look something like this:
After that the boss will likely move and you will need to find an opportunity to use the rest of your Shock skills. It will look something like this:
Remember that you always will prioritize and if they are off cooldown.
With the tripod, becomes a reliable push immune super armour skill that can be used to avoid knockbacks from specific attacks and allow you to deal damage while they are casting.
alone is roughly one third of your damage as , ensure that you do not miss it!
engravings
3
Shock Training
3
Grudge
3
Ambush Master
3
Adrenaline
3
Cursed Doll
For the recommended build, you will take the standard DPS engravings along with your class engraving. offers roughly 1% more damage but has a harsh penalty that can be difficult to play with, so if you prefer you can use instead.
combat stats
Crit
Swiftness
Specialization
Endurance
Domination
Expertise
Specialization makes your abilities hit harder, and Crit will ramp that up.
We recommend setting your pet to Specialization.
Attack Gems
Death Rattle
Supernova
Chain Destruction Fist
Potent Rising Fist
Roundup Sweep
All of your major damaging abilities require damage gems, but make sure you prioritize and .
Cooldown Gems
Death Rattle
Supernova
Chain Destruction Fist
Potent Rising Fist
Crushing Smite
Fierce Tiger Strike
Instead of or , you can instead use if you prefer.
gear tripods
The following tripods are a priority by skill:
Gear Set
You will use a mixture of Preordained Diligence from Argos and Demon Beast set from Normal Valtan and Vykas until you hit 1445 and can get the Earth's Entropy Set.
The Earth's Entropy set will dramatically increase the damage of your back attacks.
Bracelet
Look for around 50-70 Crit and around 50-70 Specialization on your bracelet to begin with, these will be the easiest bracelets to obtain and will provide a good damage increase for a low cost.
Endgame bracelets will have 2 static and up to 2 rollable bonuses (3 with Ancient Bracelets). These bracelets also typically want bonuses that compliment each other like Hammer and Wedge, which are difficult to roll.
Endgame bracelets are typically extremely expensive to purchase and roll, costing hundreds of thousands of gold on average. Do not roll for these bracelets until you’ve finished gearing up other parts of your character.
Endgame bracelets should consist of the following affixes:
- Specialization
- Crit
- Hammer (Has additional bonuses when rolled together with Wedge)
- Wedge (Has additional bonuses when rolled together with Hammer)
- Circulate
- Ambush
- Superiority
- Precise